A Community of Memory: MY DAYS with GEORGE and CLARA (Creative Nonfiction) - Tapa blanda

Gundy, Jeff

 
9780252064968: A Community of Memory: MY DAYS with GEORGE and CLARA (Creative Nonfiction)
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ISBN 10: 0252064968 ISBN 13: 9780252064968
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 1995

Sinopsis

In this fascinating series
        of narratives, many voices of Jeff Gundy's Amish and Mennonite forebears
        trace their paths and chronicle their lives. Women and men speak in these
        pages, telling their stories and linking themselves to each other, the
        past, and the present. Gundy demonstrates that who he is--who we all are--is
        shaped by a past peopled with those who worked, loved, dreamed, and died.
        By sharing his community of memory, he makes us desire to seek out our
        own.
      Using family photos, records,
        recollections, and historical research, Gundy follows seven generations
        through time and space: from Bavaria and Alsace to Ohio to Illinois in
        the 1830s; from frontier dwellings with dirt floors to homes with refrigerators.
        He also follows them intellectually, from a strict to a broader interpretation
        of religious doctrine in the 1870s, which led to a schism within the already
        small Mennonite community; from a long-standing position on pacifism and
        conscientious objection to some questioning of this stance during World
        War II.

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Acerca del autor

Jeff Gundy is a professor of English at Bluffton College, Ohio.

De la contraportada

Using family photos, records, recollections, and historical research, Gundy follows seven generations through time and space: from Bavaria and Alsace to Ohio to Illinois in the 1830s; from frontier dwellings with dirt floors to homes with refrigerators. He also follows them intellectually, from a strict to a broader interpretation of religious doctrine in the 1870s, which led to a schism within the already small Mennonite community; from a longstanding position on pacifism and conscientious objection to some questioning of this stance during World War II.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252064968
ISBN 13 
9780252064968
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
184
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